Gerbilliscus (Taterona) nigricaudus (Peters 1879)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1189-1531 : 1220

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scientific name	Gerbilliscus (Taterona) nigricaudus (Peters 1879)
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Gerbilliscus (Taterona) nigricaudus (Peters 1879) View in CoL

[Gerbilliscus (Taterona)] nigricaudus (Peters 1879) View in CoL , Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 200.

Type Locality: Kenya, Taita, Ndi.

Vernacular Names: Black-tailed Gerbil.

Synonyms: Gerbilliscus (Taterona) nyama ( Dollman 1911) ; Gerbilliscus (Taterona) percivali (Heller 1914) .

Distribution: Ethiopia ( Duckworth et al., 1993), Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Apparently does not occur west of the Eastern Rift Valley (see Bates, 1988).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Tatera nigricaudata .

Discussion: Subgenus Taterona . Revised by Bates (1988), who summarized distributional and ecological information, and reviewed by Pavlinov et al. (1990). The taxa bayeri and bodessae , included in this species by Davis (1975 a), were transferred to G. robustus by Bates (1988; see that account).